Cradle of Life
Tongue of liquidfire flows through a lava
tube createdby Kilauea volcano. Thus the
HawaiianIslands were born - and remake
themselves-in the Pacific'svast isolation.
How does life colonize such naked new
land? Crawlingon a lavafragment, a
spiderlingmay have arrived on the wind,
riding a strand of self-spun silk.
Article and photographs by
WILLIAM H. AMOS